How to Generate a Short URL Using UUIDs

If you use ULIDs, then you can control the inserts because you know that people who generate the short URLs will be generating them one after the other. But reads, I don't think it's going to benefit you at all. Just same thing as UUID, read or will be still random. You have absolutely no guarantee in this case to optimize the read requests, unlike Shopify.Shopify actually optimize both write and read, because reading, they will almost read requests that are within this 24 hours. There's no point reading requests from seven years, right?

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